Gilbert Deya

Gilbert Deya (2 February 1937-) was a Kenyan evangelical preacher and faith healer who infamously stole five children from 1999 to 2004, leading to his extradition from the United Kingdom to Kenya in 2017.

Biography
Gilbert Deya was born in Juja, Kiambu County, Kenya on 2 February 1937, the eleventh of fifteen children. He worked as a stonemason before becoming an ordained preacher for the United Evangelical Church of Kenya. He evangelized in Kenya from the late 1980s to the early 1990s, and he moved to the United Kingdom in 1997 and established Gilbert Deya Ministries. While calling himself the "Archbishop of Peckham", Deya sold olive oil while claiming that it could combat cancer and HIV and promised to assist infertile couples. His wife was arrested in 2004 and Deya in 2006 after stealing children from a Nairobi hospital and portraying them as miracle babies. He was extradited to Kenya in 2017.